FTR, RiRi was not happy about that, she told The Guardian newspaper in 2008: “No one wants to be teased. How can you bring a record to me when you took it to a million people at the same time? I thought Mary J Blige was going to get it for sure. But at the back of my mind I was thinking, No wait, I’m never giving this up. I went up to the guy [Nash] at the Grammys and I was like, ‘”Umbrella” is my.’ And he just kind of giggled. And I really held his face…like, ‘No you’re not hearing me, “Umbrella” is my record.'”
Original source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/surprising-facts-about-your-favorite-no1-00s-songs.
